The Survival of Traditional Healing in a Contemporary Black Community

I find that from 1850 to modern times, ethnomedicine has thrived amidst a confluence of factors that give cohort members robust incentives to pursue herbal and magical healing and equally compelling disincentives to pursue biomedicine. Ethnomedicine's resonance with a perceived black world view may derive additional elements of its appeal. The logic of the cohort's allegiance to ethnomedicine challenges the depiction of ethnomedical believers as misguided or unsophisticated. Indeed, characteristics of ethnomedicine and of its healers, if transplanted to hospitals and clinics, may enhance biomedicine's appeal among ethnomedically oriented black patients.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Johnson, Kirk Anthony

Contributors dc:contributor

• Lie, John

• Black Studies

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9944898

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86251